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    The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel
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    The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel

    By Cheyenne McCray

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    Alexi Steele is determined, relentless, and driven to protect the innocent. She's a top agent of the NSA's clandestine Recovery Enforcement Division, specializing in human trafficking and sex crimes. Her current mission: To infiltrate the inner circle of Boston's exclusive S&M clubs in order to save thirteen young women who are about to be auctioned off to the highest bidders. But Lexi's only way in is under the "control" of her new partner in crime, Nicholas Donovan.

    Nick will do whatever it takes to bring down the billionaire sex-ring mastermind who's kidnapped his sister. But the games he must play as Lexi's "dominant" are burning away his icy control, and blurring the lines between partners. Meanwhile, their enemies are closing in as they enter a devastating race against time...bringing them dangerously close to THE FIRST SIN.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 3, 2009
    ISBN9781429966290
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    The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel
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    Cheyenne McCray

    Cheyenne McCray is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author who grew up on a ranch in southeastern Arizona and has written over one hundred published novels and novellas. Chey also writes cozy mysteries as Debbie Ries. She delights in creating stories of suspense, love, and redemption with characters and worlds her readers can get lost in. Chey and her husband live with their two Ragdoll cats and two small dogs in southeastern Arizona where she enjoys going on long walks, traveling around the world, and searching for her next adventure and new ideas, as well as hand embroidering crazy quilts and listening to audiobooks. Find out more about Chey, how to contact her, and her books at https://cheyennemccray.com.

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    • 3/5
      The basic premise was great, but the characters seemed sort of flat, and the relationship too quick and easy, without enough emotional depth for my tastes, or enough of a drawn out seduction (either of the characters or of the reader.)
    • 3/5
      I've had this a while, never managed to get into it. Now I've read it, more or less, without skimming so it gets 3 stars. But it's so silly, a nd requires such suspension of disbelief that it's hard to stay with. Everyone works for hush hush acronyms, everyone has terrible pasts. Lexie was tortured and forced, Nikita like, to become an assassin. They are hunting slavers in Boston, who stole the wrong man's sister and Lexie and Nick have to go undercover in the world of BSDM to find the evil guys. But that world makes no sense, and the evil guys are ciphers and the violence against women is just lurid. Lexie and Nick had great sex but neither would admit to more, and I'm just not that into them, to bother following them into a series. Glad to give it away on paperbacksway. I rate it C
    • 3/5
      Alexi is the definition of an Alpha female--she is intelligent, witty, sexy, and can kick major butt and nut. She also heads a team of secret government agents, of course, until Donovan comes into the picture. He is sexy and very Alpha. Together, they run an operation to recover women who have been sold as sex slaves and put the bad guys away. One is doing it for the common good, and the other is doing it for personal reasons. This book is the first in the Lexy Steele Series, followed by her bother's story in "Real Men Last All Night" anthology. Then its "Second Betrayal."
    • 4/5
      Story got a little boring after awhile
    • 4/5
      Reviewed for queuemyreview.com; book release Feb09Four stars for the story, three for the violenceWhoa. “The First Sin” by Cheyenne McCray was a very hard book for me to read. Those who regularly read my reviews know I enjoy just about anything that’s written, including erotica. My ‘line’ so to speak, is drawn at the point where events and sexual acts veer from mutually consensual. When one or more persons performs sexual acts (not just penetration) against another person’s will…that’s rape—and that’s NEVER sexy. If harsh scenes of strong BDSM (at the least) and sadomasochism and torture bother you…stop reading now. Alexi Steele is as hard as her name and it’s the life she’s lived that made her that way. She’s proficient at fighting, whether hand-to-hand or with weapons. She’s also a crack shot at just about anything that can be fired. All these talents make her a good weapon and she’s grateful that these days she works for an NSA clandestine organization called RED that stands for Recovery Enforcement Division. RED is super secret and pretty much operates outside the rules. That’s necessary because they go after the baddest of the bad and Lexi’s department in particular deals with Human Trafficking and Sex Crimes. Her latest mission involves infiltrating a BDSM-cover ring that drugs, kidnaps, and auctions women as sex slaves. But just as Lexi is ready to go undercover, she gets a new ‘partner’ Nick. Now, instead of Lexi as dominatrix, it will be Lexi as submissive…too bad Lexi really doesn’t have a submissive bone in her body.Nick’s sister is one of the women sold as a sex slave by this ring. There’s absolutely NOTHING he won’t do to find his sister and shut down the operation. When he sees Lexi, he quickly realizes just how attracted he is to her. But of course, that should come in handy seeing as how they’ll have to be together in every sense of the word in order to make their cover real. Nick just didn’t realize how much he would enjoy ‘having’ Lexi.This story was hot enough to singe my eyebrows. But, I just couldn’t ever get past the pain and violence involved. Lexi is a woman who has undergone torture at the hands of not one, but two groups during her military stint in the past. Now in this story, she’s humiliated, whipped, stripped, caned, carved and tattooed, beaten several times, drugged, starved, and ‘clamped’ with needle sharp-toothed rings through her nipples and clit as part of one torture scene. And the story of Nick’s sister Kirsten as a sex slave was just as hard to read about. It was all I could do to force myself to keep reading without skipping pages to escape these painful scenes. Maybe I’m too sensitive to this subject or maybe I’m too much of a prude, but this book zoomed right past my comfort zone before I’d read one third of it!The story is suspenseful and tight. The action kicks off at the first page and doesn’t let up until the last one. Short chapters with date stamps and insight into different character’s thoughts only ramp up the tension. Even time swaps and voice changes didn’t interrupt the smooth flow of the overall story. If it hadn’t been for the continuing torture scenes, I’d have loved the whole book.